Essay About Essay Preview And Atmosphere Of The Sonnet

Sonnet 30
Essay Preview: Sonnet 30
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Like the saying,” Time heals the wounds,” we as humans, tend to find
ways to disguise the anguish we truly feel. In sonnet 30 Shakespeare shows how
the speaker is suffering and his/her time of despair. The speakers sorrowful
remembrance of dead friends are quelled only by thoughts of his friend, this
shows how the speaker is dependent
of this lost friend to console him at the time
of loss. Through alliteration, legalistic vocabulary and emotions of his friend the
speaker is able to convey his depression and deepest sentiment.
In this sonnet, the speaker emphasizes alliteration in the first
lines, “Sessions of sweet silent I summon up I sigh.” The speakers form of
alliteration enhances the feel and rhyme and his stress of the event he is making
reference to. This is also done through the soft “s” sound. The sound makes the
tone and atmosphere of the sonnet a more relaxed feeling. Through these
images the speaker uses gives the reader a sense of the mood he/ she is in,
which seems to be desolate and resilient.
There is a lot of legalistic and financial vocabulary that is used in the
sonnet, for example,” account and new pay.” The word “summons” suggests a
the sitting of a court. In todays vocabulary “summons” suggest something
received and usually bad. We still use phrases such as sessions in connection
with legal sittings, and court room sessions. The court imagery is continued with
“summon up” in the following line. The words “expense” and “account” and “pay”
suggest accounting. There is a reference to loss and also possible hyperbole at
the end. I think the speaker is trying to makes reference to the fact that because
of his loss, things have to be accounted for and his pain is in a way how he is
paying for his losses. He/she grieves again and again for his/her “account”, as he
is repaying by mourning and crying over the loss of dead friends.